TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup

The annual Stackoverflow survey is here and while JavaScript continues to rule the roost, TypeScript has edged past Java to make it into the top five most commonly used programming languages. Microsoft's superset of JavaScript has been slowly creeping up the rankings: it was seventh most used in 2021, up from ninth place in …

[Andy Miller]

This week's chart

Who else heard "Whole Lotta Love" as they read all those charged chart positions?

[sabroni]

re: the median time spent was actually just over 15 minutes.

So this is a survey of devs who had about 15 minutes to fuck arse around answering questions on a survey.

What do the Devs who are doing the work use?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: re: the median time spent was actually just over 15 minutes.

Wow, who knew that people a) take breaks or b) don't work 24 hours per day and have weekends or c) slow tooling, d) an off day, etc. Muppet.

[sabroni]

Re: Muppet

Oooh anonymous snark! Put a name to it or fuck off.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Muppet

Yeah, sorry, I'm just an asshole with nothing better to do than shit post....

And I spend a lot of my free time doing surveys!

[Dinanziame]

Re: Muppet

You seemed to have unresolved issues... But you sure seem to have a lot of free time to fuck arse around answering comments on your comments on a news site. I can only assume you're not among those "doing the work", eh?

[sabroni]

Re: You seemed to have unresolved issues...

So many touchy people, so little time!!!

[Crypto Monad]

Re: re: the median time spent was actually just over 15 minutes.

Obligatory xkcd

[Decani]

Re: re: the median time spent was actually just over 15 minutes.

Says the person who's found the time to post 3711 times - pity the poor devs covering for you whilst you goof off.

[sabroni]

Re: Says the person who's found the time to post 3711 times

Wow, who knew that people a) take breaks or b) don't work 24 hours per day and have weekends or c) slow tooling, d) an off day, etc. Muppet.

[Warm Braw]

Apparently...

92% of respondents were male

Only 11% were over 45

47% described themselves as "full stack" developers

Systems Administrators and Project Managers have around 4 more years coding experience than developers

The once ubiquitous perl is languishing at 2%

APL still exists and is only slightly less popular than COBOL and FORTRAN

Just to pluck a few results at random. I'm sure this says a lot about Stack Overflow users, less sure how to extrapolate to the industry as a whole.

[John Robson]

Erm... Maths?

"Linux passed macOS to take second place with 40 percent of responses compared to Apple's 33 percent"

So if Linux had 40%, MacOS had 33% then Windows must have had 151% of the remaining 27% in order to have come out ahead of Linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Erm... Maths?

Sex Panther: "60% of the time, it works every time!"

[Richard 12]

Re: Erm... Maths?

Several of my products run on Windows, macOS and Linux, so I would have ticked all three.

I very much doubt this is particularly rare.

[Richard 12]

461 had never visited StackOverflow

How did they recruit respondents?